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BOSHELL v. ALABAMA MENTAL HEALTH BOARD

No. 72-3506. Summary Calendar.

473 F.2d 1369 (1973)

L. B. BOSHELL, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. ALABAMA MENTAL HEALTH BOARD et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

February 16, 1973.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jack R. Evans, Tuscaloosa, Ala., for plaintiff-appellant.

John Coleman, Jr., James P. Alexander, Birmingham, Ala., J. Jerry Wood, Asst. Atty. Gen., Robert L. Humphries, Asst. Atty. Gen., Montgomery, Ala., for defendants-appellees.

Before BELL, GODBOLD and INGRAHAM, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM.

Boshell brought an action under the Civil Rights Act of 1871, 42 U.S.C. § 1983, claiming that he was discharged from his position as an aid at the Bryce Hospital, an institution operated by the Alabama Mental Health Board, for constitutionally impermissible reasons. He asserted that his discharge arose from the exercise of his First Amendment rights in actively seeking passage of certain legislation which was opposed by the hospital administration...

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